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Release Note

Release v1.1.6 (23 May 2024)

Core and Library

  • Improves the compatibility with IAR and GCC
  • Various fixes in the Helium library
  • Adds new APIs for fill-colour-with-mirroring (with/without opacity)
  • Adds new APIs for fill-colour-with-horizontal/vertical-line-masks (with/without opacity)
  • Adds new APIs for tile-copy-with-source-mask-and-opacity
  • Adds implicit conversion for ARGB8888 (ccca8888) in tile-copy APIs
    • Copy with Opacity
    • Copy with Source Masks (with/without Opacity)
  • Adds experimental APIs for IIR blur
  • Adds a Helium-ACI example library.
  • Uses jinja scripts for generating source files

Helper Services

  • Improves performance statistics
    • Allows frame-skipping when no valid dirty region
  • Improves log services
    • Adds a dedicated channel for statistics
    • Adds a dedicated channel for example controls
    • Adds line number
  • Improves scratch memory management
  • Improves the layout assistant
    • Adds macro helpers for docking
    • Allows arm_2d_canvas to skip running when it is out of the partial-framebuffer valid region.
    • Improves the capability of the layout nesting.
    • Adds a layout assistant debug mode
  • Improves the lcd printf service
    • Improves the scaling service
  • Improves the Display Adapter service
    • Adds the support for screen rotation (90, 180 and 270 degrees) in the Display Adapter service
    • Adds colour information
    • Allows retargeting printf to LCD
    • Improves user application performance
    • Improves the support for UTF8
    • Adds arm_2d_helper_pfb_is_region_being_drawing
    • Adds a Tiny Mode for navigation layer
  • Improves the Scene Player service
    • Adds the canvas colour to arm_2d_scene_t.
    • Adds an onLoad event to arm_2d_scene_t.
    • Adds a built-in dirty region helper service
    • Improves the scene switching effects
  • Adds a helper service for byte FIFO: arm_2d_byte_fifo_t
  • Adds __arm_2d_helper_time_elapsed
  • Adds helper services for dirty regions
  • Adds a code template for adding user defined OPCODE
  • Improves pixel-pipeline for processing masks

Examples and Templates

  • Improves the compatibility with CMSIS6
  • Improves the complexity of the generic benchmark
  • Adds an example control for drawing rounded corner images
  • Allows changing the masks when
    • drawing rounded corner boxes
    • drawing rounded corner border
    • drawing progress wheel
  • Adds built-in dirty region support to example controls
  • Adds example project for csolution: [template][csolution]
  • Improves code templates of the scene, the display adapter and the example control
  • Adds demos
  • Marks arm_extra_controls.h as deprecated. Please use arm_2d_example_controls.h instead.
  • Adds new example controls:
    • console box
    • histogram
  • Adds new scene templates:
    • alarm clock
    • bubble charging
    • fan
  • Adds new assets
  • Adds an onDrawParticles event handler to the dynamic nebular
  • Fixes small issues in example controls
  • Improve the PC template
  • Reduces the memory footprint of example controls.
  • Improves the performance of example controls

Documentation and Misc

  • Improves python scripts in the tools folder.
  • Adds a document for how-to-use-jinja-script-for-code-generation

Release v1.1.5 (01 Dec 2023)

Core and Library

  • Improves the support for masks in the pixel-pipeline.
  • Updates transform operations
    • Always generating a child tile for the target tile in transform operations.
    • Adds optimization for hollow out masks in C implementations
  • Adds the support for adding Asynchronous acceleration, Synchronous acceleration and ACI acceleration.
  • Adds the support for trace log
  • Adds a new API: arm_2d_is_region_inside_target()

Helper Services

  • Updates ttf2c.py for generating A1, A2 and A4 fonts.
  • Updates the Display Adapter Service (the PFB Helper Service)
    • Introduces a Dry-Run mode in the PFB helper service.
    • Introduces the Dynamic Dirty Region, a new type of dirty region items that allows users to update its area during drawing and interact with the PFB. helper service.
    • Introduces the concept of virtual screen which is used to anchor the virtual screen in the PFB helper service.
    • Introduces the Dirty Region Optimization in the PFB Helper service.
    • Updates the performance statistic service in the Display Adapter service.
      • Introduces the CPU Usage info calculation.
      • Places the performance statistic to the Display Adapter class.
    • Simplifies the way of navigation layer customization.
    • Improves the robustness of the Asynchronous Flushing helper.
    • Improves the dirty region debug mode.
    • Updates the disp_adapter_task() to support Framerate-Locking in the bare-metal environment.
  • Introduces helper macros for docking.
  • Adds the char scaling support to A8 fonts.
  • Updates the transform helper service.
    • Fixes an issue in region calculation.
    • Improves the performance.

Examples and Templates

  • Adds a new example scene to demonstrate a curve-list-view.

  • Adds a new example scene (arm_2d_scene_audiomark) to demonstrate the dirty region optimization

  • Adds a new service, 3FB helper service for supporting the so-called Direct Mode.

  • Updates example controls and scene templates.

    • Adds dirty regions to the Progress Wheel.
    • Adds a new API for drawing round corner image.
    • Updates the APIs for drawing round corner boxes and allows specifying user defined resources.
    • Updates the progress bars.
    • Adds a new scene template for fitness trackers.

  • Updates benchmarks

    • Reduces the SRAM footprint of the tiny mode for the generic benchmark.

  • Improve PC template

Documentation and Misc

  • Adds an initial support for CMake.
  • Introduces a header template arm_2d_user_arch_port.h and makes it easier to port arm-2d to a different architecture other than Cortex-M.
  • Improves the support for C++ compilation.
  • Fixes the support for the Arm Compiler 5.
  • Improve the support for Arm Compiler 6.21.
  • Adds a new document How To Accelerate Arm-2D
  • Updates the document How To Deploy Arm-2D to introduce the supports for Asynchronous Flushing Mode and Direct Mode.
  • Updates the benchmark generic result.
  • Updates README.md.
  • Adds ReleaseNote.md